Last week's Under the Dome didn't suck, so I'll check it out again. Defiance and Warehouse 13 wrap their seasons next week, so that'll clear Mondays out. I figure to check out The Bridge when it debuts July 10. Meanwhile, the season season of Continuum is interesting and is definitely worth my eyeball time. I'll confess this show had me in the second ep of the first season with "Bitch cop does."

FX have been showing the sixth series of Burn Notice coming up to three weeks now and I can't help wondering what the hell happened to the programme. It used to be a fairly light action romp that didn't take itself too seriously, it had a bit of heart and a sense of humour. At the onset of the sixth series any semblance of humour has been dumped out of the window for excruciating attempts at serious drama that does nothing more than tumble into overplayed melodrama. Stories should evolve and bring new things, but not at the expense of their essence. Don't know how much longer I'll be watching Burn Notice, which is a pity as most of the other TV series I've been following lately (Elementary, Community, NCIS: Los Angeles and Bones – though Bones was a bit of a blessing, as it's gone completely to hell) have ended their current runs. Still, I've been catching up with Castle and The Mentalist, which will keep me going for a while.

Under the Dome is continuing to not suck. I like that some characters from book have more shades of gray about them. Probably the thing that bugs me the most is the kidnap storyline between Junior and Angie. The biggest problem for me is that it seemed to come too soon. I would have preferred that they first show Angie and Junior as the "perfect" young couple and then take six or seven episode to slowly show the cracks in their facade as well as showing us why these two people came together in the first place (presumably Junior didn't just stump over to Angie and say "Hi, I'm a possessive psychotic, wanna go out with me?"). Then, maybe episode eight do the kidnap thing.

It's not how fast you can goWe dead will take it slow We don't pick up our feet We've forgotten about defeatMore than just survivalMore than just a flashExhaustion is your bottom line So go ahead and dash

It's a test of ultimate willYou roll your hopes uphill We don't pick up the paceBecause it's not that kind of raceMore than good conditionMore than simple speed Our cold flesh has ambitionTo feed this burning need In the long run...

The first shall be the last The torch you'll never pass Something about your flesh that beats ketchup and friesOne moment's bite, and our eyes roll with delight Life's just a streak of lightningThat flashes and fades in the summer sky

Your body may overloadYou can rest at the side of the roadWe won't miss a strideSo say goodbye to your free rideMore than high performanceOr either rain, or snowMore than just the gloom of night Or a lucky shot from a bowIn the long run...

The first shall be the last Your sleep will end our fast Something about your scent that draws us like horsefliesOne moment's slip, and we will use our grip Your life's a streak of lightningThat flashes and fades in the summer sky

The screenwriter of Sharknado has to be some sort of genius. I wouldn't even have thought it was possible to make a feature length story out of the 'tornado full of sharks' concept, and yet, somehow, they pulled it off.

Watching Orange Is the New Black on Netflix. It is a pretty darned good show, really. They're doing the Lost thing of showing you bits of their characters' back stories in every episode. But without the supernatural shit.

Bear in mind SyFy Channel cancelled Alphas to pay for shit like Sharknado...

Meanwhile, Continuum continues to grow in both plot complexity and sheer coolness, as witnessed by this week's scene (Canadian airing - US/UK are about 4 episodes behind this) where...

...anti-corporate agent Jasmine Garza is arrested and picks the lock of her handcuffs with her nipple piercing bar

...which I defy you to find in any other programme.

Also, Falling Skies could not get any stupider. Any semblance of actually exploring what humanity would have to become to repel an alien invasion is gone, drowned in daddy-issue family wankery of such profound idiocy that Our 'Heroes' can't even handle a party of road thieves sensibly.

@Cat Vincent. I somehow didn't realize that that was that was. And they even established that she had them in a flashback to the future a couple of episodes ago. That's actually pretty brilliant serialized story-telling.

Poor Justin. Fucking loved that character. Had hopes they'd do a near-future crimes show with a mature post-John version running the shop... but not to be.

As I noted elsewhere: not the strongest run of the show in terms of the crimes and the secondary stuff (new love interest is OK, the meet-cure really wasn't... and the Glaswegian Internal Affairs bloke is not as scary as they think he is. "You're not the whirlwind. I am the whirlwind", indeed) but it's all to play for next week.